Thanks. Same gentleman I mentioned over in the other forum, within the last couple of months. I still think of him almost everyday, though, especially when I'm at (or pass) my bench.


While I appreciate your enthusiasm for writing a book about gun maintenance and repair, it's really something that ought to be written by someone who is an actual gunsmith, and not just some factory-trained armorer/cobbler.

Besides, my writing projects are more involved in addressing my martial arts experience and a bit of firearms training experiences. Believe it or not, just yesterday I got the sudden urge to write 4 more pages of poetry involving some aspects of my arts. I haven't done that since the late 90's, I think. (Some things are best approached and addressed in verse, rather than narrative text. Probably wouldn't work quite as well for firearms training & maintenance, though. )

I've got some 1400-odd pages of assorted stuff on those 2 topics I wrote and put away toward the end of the 90's. The only exposure they've seen was when a friend coaxed me into letting him publish them in some group newsletter he self-published back then. One of those New Age journals, so it's not like it would've likely been seen by anyone here.

I remember when I sometimes helped him at his vendor booth at some Expo's and conferences, and he asked about my martial arts background. he was a bit uncomfortable with how easily someone could train to create violence ... but at least he stopped wincing when he suddenly hugged me and felt my belt gun. I used to ask me why I'd ever feel the need to carry a weapon at a New Age type expo, to which I'd ask if he'd ever taken a close look around at the assorted people who actually appeared and walked around at them?

I obviously share your hope of another 30 years, but then I also remember hearing my oncologist tell me that it was her job to try and give me another 25-30 years of a good life ... except that was 8 years ago. Time flies. I'm really starting to feel my age when I run headlong into an example of how the flexibility in my legs is diminished from my grasshopper days of 40 years ago. Damn, right?

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Roger that my friend! Best regards 18DAI

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7 +1 Rounds of hope & change

I still have my two-week local armorer's school manual from a long time ago, but it wouldn't hurt to get a few Kuhnhausens on Smiths.
Not physical skills to pass down, but better than nothing.
Denis

Are those 9mm muffs?

Not specified, coulda been.
Denis

I hope that I don't get flamed for this...but if you finely polish the V-notch in the draw bar and slightly round and polish the sharp engagement surface on the trigger you will NOT need a new draw bar spring to eliminate the "click"..the trigger engagement will smoothly slide right down into the V-notch..However this is more difficult than just replacing the spring...

I’m doing my level best to absorb the bountiful technical knowledge available on this forum. However, sometimes that absorption is at odds with the “Oldtimers” that afflicted my ancestors. I read all the posts on this thread and even made a comment or two. Fast forward to this afternoon.

Another forum member and I are shooting and I pull out my new to me CS45. He gets the honor of running the first magazine and then I take my turn. After the first shot, I ask him, “What the * is that click?”

He reminds me of this thread and says, “Yes, it’s THAT click”. He bent the spring and resolved the issue for me. But, I guess I’ll be ordering springs, rivets, files and Valium.

You generally only notice it if you're going slow and doing slow-fire target shooting/plinking, trying to "sneak up" on the trigger break during a slow press.

Running the gun at speed, concentrating on maintaining controllability and sight alignment for accurate shot strings, is usually a bit different.

Even the lack of a trigger play spring (with the attendant bit of "trigger slop" in SA) typically isn't noticed by someone running the gun in a real shooting incident, or simulating real shooting conditions, and using a solid trigger technique.

For example, I once decided to do a bit extra drill work than normal over the course of working 2 consecutive range sessions, using one of my issued guns, an early production 6906. (For quite a while I had a couple of issued guns, being compact and full-size.) I fired a bit more than 800rds during those 2 sessions, without cleaning the gun or inspecting it. It ran like a top and delivered its usual accuracy, reliability and ammo tolerance.

At the end of the second day I decided to clean the gun and give it a once-over. I was mildly surprised when I discovered that the trigger play spring (the old style) was broken off, meaning both sides/leafs were missing, with only the riveted base still present. I had no idea at what point during those 2 days that the spring had decided to part company with the drawbar, but then I'd been a LOT of shooting and hadn't especially been using "kid gloves" when briskly manipulating the trigger press in either DA or SA. (Since I shoot for defensive purpose I shoot to trigger recovery, not trigger reset, whether the gun is DA, SA or DAO-ish - which has long been how we were required to teach, for liability concerns when our people might be using guns in high stress situations in public.)

I replaced the spring, of course, because that was how our guns were maintained.

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